正題名/作者 : How markets fail :/ John Cassidy.
其他題名 : the logic of economic calamities /
作者 : Cassidy, John,
出版者 : New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2009.
面頁冊數 : viii, 390 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
標題 : Financial crises. -
ISBN : 9780374173203 (hbk.)
ISBN : 0374173206 (hbk.)
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245 10$aHow markets fail :$bthe logic of economic calamities /$cJohn Cassidy.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2009.
300 $aviii, 390 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. Utopian economics -- 1. Warnings ignored and the conventional wisdom -- 2. Adam Smith's invisible hand -- 3. Friedrich Hayek's telecommunications system -- 4. The perfect markets of Lausanne -- 5. The mathematics of bliss -- 6. The evangelist -- 7. The coin-tossing view of finance -- 8. The triumph of utopian economics -- Pt. 2. Reality-based economics -- 9. The prof and the polar bears -- 10. A taxonomy of failure -- 11. The prisoner's dilemma and rational irrationality -- 12. Hidden information and the market for lemons -- 13. Keynes's beauty contest -- 14. The rational herd -- 15. Psychology returns to economics -- 16. Hyman Minsky and Ponzi finance -- Pt. 3. The great crunch -- 17. Greenspan shrugs -- 18. The lure of real estate -- 19. The subprime chain -- 20. In the alphabet soup -- 21. A matter of incentives -- 22. London Bridge is falling down -- 23. Socialism in our time.
520 $aJohn Cassidy describes the rising influence of what he calls utopian economics--thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can produce disastrous unintended consequences. He then looks to the leading edge of economic theory, including behavioral economics, to offer a new understanding of the economy--one that casts aside the old assumption that people and firms make decisions purely on the basis of rational self-interest.
650 0$aFinancial crises.$3198634
650 0$aStock exchanges.$3182894
650 0$aMonetary policy.$3139259
650 0$aBanks and banking.$3143608